Category: Eritrea
Eritrea : TPLF TV Signalling the Gravity of the Threat
Asmara (Canadian Press), November 5th, 2020. The army are preparing for a second day of clashes in Tigray National Regional State borders, while the United Nations, European Unin, IGAD, African Union and the United States of America (WhiteHouse Desk) urged both Addis Ababa and Gonder to step back from a conflict that risks erupting into…
Eritrea : Chinese and Turkish Attack Drones will Dominate TPLF Tanks
Asmara (HAN) November 5th, 2020. Regional Security and Stability. A Chinese and Turkish Attack drones will dominate TPLF Tanks, tactics, BM rocket artillery and militia scattered across the Tigray mountains…. as Tigray-Amara and Eritrean front Conflict Showcases the Future of the Horn of African expected internal conflict in Tigray State and Amara State. Reporters have…
Eritrea’s illegal ‘diaspora tax’ in the US
The greater Washington area has become a refuge for Eritreans fleeing one of the world’s most brutal dictatorships. While great hope accompanied Eritrea’s independence almost three decades ago, freedom fighter-turned-independence leader Isaias Afwerki imposed a regime that rivals only North Korea and Turkmenistan in the level of its totalitarianism. In the latest Freedom House rankings, Eritrea even slipped…
Eritrea Sees Opportunity to Increase its Regional Role
Asmara (HAN) 30th October, 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives. A senior advisor to the Eritrean leader says the reason behind the recent flare-up in violence is that Egypt has been emboldened by United States (President Trump Administration) support and now has military might it didn’t have previously. Those resources and the lack of…
Why Eritrea Shifts Course on Egypt?
Khartoum (HAN) October 16, 2020. Public Diplomacy and Energy Initiatives updates. Opinion Article “Eritrea shifts course on Egypt-Ethiopia dispute over Nile dam” By. Ayah Aman is a senior journalist based in Cairo, Egypt. She works for Al-Shorouk daily newspaper. The visit of Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki to the site of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam…
Eritrea: Eritrean Volunteers Come Forward to Offer Support Armenia
Asmara (HAN) 30th October, 2020. Regional Security updates. Eritreans condemned the humanitarian issues and shows it to assist efforts to ease tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan about the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, but it fell short of expressing its full support for the Armenian just cause about the so called Artsakh statehood and failed to express explicit…
President Trump wins Eritrea will Witness Peaceful Transitions Soon
Khartoum (HAN) October 28, 2020. Diplomacy and Regional Security updates. Eritrean rebel leader Isaias Afewerki’s divisive rule over the Eritrean people and its land is as strong as ever, over fifty years since taking power in 1975 as a rebel-EPLF. Eritrean leader Awerki surprised the statement last week from the leaders of America, Sudan and…
Somalia president visited Asmara, Denied Planned Meeting with Uhuru
Nairobi (HAN) October 27, 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Security updates. Somalia has denied reports of a planned meeting in Nairobi between President Uhuru and his Somalia counterpart Farmajo. The Somalia president visited Asmara this month and there were reports in the Kenya and Eritrean free press that Farmajo would meet Uhuru and the Ugandan…
Eritrea: Israel Expected to deport 20,000 Eritrean asylums
Establishment of ties is expected to change policy, despite international refugee convention mandating that asylum applications be examined on case-by-case basis The planned normalization of relations with Sudan will facilitate the repatriation of asylum seekers back to that northeast African country, sources in Israel say. While Israel has in the past cited the principle of…
Eritrea’s Isaias Afwerki president for life
There are few leaders as enigmatic as Eritrea’s president, Isaias Afwerki. In my book, Understanding Eritrea: Inside Africa’s Most Repressive State, I profile the president who led the country as it fought for its freedom from Ethiopia for 30 years, only to then turn on his own people. Eritrea has been independent since 1993 but has no constitution…
